Mahesh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘great ruler’, a byname of Shiva; also the name of a Buddhist deity
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məˈhɛʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahesh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In Sri Lanka it is the 36th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 526(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 9.8K
- USUnited States1 in 76K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #584 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 526 (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sanskrit: ‘great ruler’, a byname of Shiva; also the name of a Buddhist deity.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahesh counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 689 | 4 | Mahesh | 67 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #36 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 526 | — | Mahesh | 68 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Mahesh | 45 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Mahesh | 31 |
| US United States | — | 4,402 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Mahesh | 320 |
| SG Singapore | #647 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Mahesh | 69 |
| GY Guyana | #284 | 243 | 1 in 3.1K | 243 | Mahesh | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mahesh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A title of the god Shiva.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahesh Kumar Kanodiab. 1939INIndian singer and politician
- Mahesh Bhattb. 1948INIndian film director, producer and screenwriter
- Mahesh Manjrekarb. 1958INIndian actor
- Mahesh Dattanib. 1958INIndian actor, dramatist
- Mahesh Sharmab. 1959INIndian politician
- Mahesh Anandb. 1961INIndian actor
- Mahesh Thakurb. 1969INIndian actor
- Mahesh Bhupathib. 1974INIndian tennis player
- Mahesh Babub. 1975INIndian actor
- Mahesh Jadub. 1982AUAustralian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.4K | #4,306 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 243 | #358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #4,306 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 4 | #33 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mahesh mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘great ruler’, a byname of Shiva; also the name of a Buddhist deity. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Mahesh?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈhɛʃ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mahesh a male or female name?
- Mahesh is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Mahesh?
- In the etymology graph, Mahesha is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mahesh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Mahesh in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahesh.
- How common is the name Mahesh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,402 people named Mahesh in 2020, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahesh compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Mahesh is the 36th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maheshThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mahesh” — the 36th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.